Elephant seals

Last months National Geographic had a short story about elephant seals which inspired this blog post. Apparently there are about 700 000 individuals in the circumpolar arctic ocean. Amazingly they can dive 3 200 feet. And I read in the national geographic article that they are starting to put cameras and ocean monitoring equipment that will help researchers understand more about ocean currents under the Antarctic sea ice which is amazing.



Male elephant seals can reach the four tonnes mark which is more than a small car. Beachmasters are a term given to male bulls whom have fought and won breeding rights to whomever lands on their beach. Sometimes beachmasters can have a harem of over 50 cows.These are really great animals living in some of the harshest climates on earth. I found some of the information from this article.